Yaay! Chapter! here it is:
But first:
Disclaimer: I own the five Maximum Ride books because i bought them. The actual Maximum Ride series is not mine, k?
Max POV:
We were all waiting for Nudge to come home. I was starting to get worried. What if she got attacked? Where did she go? Was she gonna leave again. I certainly hope she wasn't. I loved her constant chatter, even though it could be annoying sometimes, and would hate to have her leave again. Ella would be pretty sad, too. She acted as if Nudge were her own sister, not to mention her best friend.
As you can imagine, I was pretty stressed out. So, when she came through the front door, I breathed a small sigh of relief. What was even better was the happy expression on her face.
"Guess what I found!" She squealed. At that instant, Angel, Total (carried by Iggy), Gazzy, and Iggy came through the door. My mouth hung open in shock. I counted heads. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We were all here! The whole flock, at my mom's house! I felt like breaking out into a touchdown dance. Being me, of course, I didn't.
"Hi!" Angel said. She ran up, hugging me hard. "I missed you so much!" Part of me wanted to hug her back. I missed her so much when she was gone, and constantly worried about her safety. The other part of me stood still, and refused to give in to her. I was still a little mad at her for wanting to split up like the rest of the flock. In the end, I couldn't resist. I hugged her back equally hard, and said "I missed you, too,"
When she let go of me, I walked up to Iggy.
"Hey Max," He said. I knew that was as close to a nice greeting that I would probably get from him, so I " 'hey'd" back at him, and moved on.
Gazzy was talking to Nudge about something, and I sat down to listen.
"It was so cool! All we had to do was attach the…" He stopped when I started listening.
"Hi, Max," He said. He gave me a quick hug before returning to his conversation. I didn't really think that I wanted to hear what he was talking about, so I got up and sat down next to Angel.
"Where's Total?" I asked her. "I didn't see where he went off to,"
"Look," She said pointing to the dining room. Total was having his own reunion with his lady-friend, Akila. Angel giggled.
"So what have you been doing?" I asked her.
"I've been flying here with Iggy and Gazzy. We would've been here sooner, but we got stopped by some flyboys, and…"
"What?" I said, interrupting her. "Flyboys?"
"Yeah," She answered. "They came to us when We were crossing the state border into Arizona. We beat them bad, and the fight was pretty short, but they managed to knock us back a couple miles."
Wow. I never thought that flyboys could do that. Usually, They couldn't faze us enough to knock us back a yard, let alone a mile!
"Yeah, I guess we just had an off day or something," Angel said, reading my thoughts.
In the midst of all this, Fang came over to sit by me, listening to the fight.
"How many were there?" He asked.
"There was around the 12-30 range," She said. "I didn't really count," It wasn't that much, so I relaxed slightly. We hadn't seen flyboys in a while, and I thought that they got retired, like erasers. I shuddered, remembering Ari.
He is dead now, Maximum. Stop thinking of the past, and start thinking of the future.
I jumped. The voice was pretty silent since I'd gotten to mom's house. It startled me that it would come back. I was also a little angry. The voice said that he would only speak up when I needed guidance. What did I do wrong, now?
It is nothing you have done, yet, Maximum. He said, obviously hearing my thoughts.
Yet? I asked, just barely interested.
There is more time to come, He said. And more time to make mistakes.
Yeah, whatever that means I replied.
"You ok, Max?" Someone asked. I snapped out of the conversation with the voice in my head (boy, did that sound crazy) to reply.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I replied to whoever. I turned to Angel. She was looking at me, a strange gleam in her eyes. She must've heard the conversation, and was trying to make sense of it. I didn't really care what he/she/it was saying. I was just happy to have all my flock with me.
"Angel, Iggy, Gazzy?" My mom asked, walking into the room. She didn't hear Nudge come in, so it was a surprise to see them.
"Hi, Dr. M," Gazzy said. He was absentmindly taking apart my mom's TV remote, and barely looked up.
"Well," mom said. "I was just about to say that dinner was ready, but, since you three are here, I guess I'll have to make more food!" She walked back to the kitchen.
In about 15 minutes, she had made about 3X the food she had already made, and invited us all to the dining (A/N: I love how 'dining' has the 'inin' thing in it. So fun to type!) room to eat. Once sat down, Mom started questioning the three latest arrivals like she had Nudge and Fang. I'm not going to go into all the boring details, but, by the time she was finished, everyone was tired, and headed to bed. There really was no more room for the newest three, so Angel shared a bed with me, and Iggy and Gazzy slept on the floor.
Tired, the flock fell asleep gradually...
I guess you could say that was kinda long, right?
Working on the next chapter...i'll try to get it up today...
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Next chapter has faxness...yay!